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YPPHtoday at 12:26 AM2 repliesview on HN

>The Nintendo Switch (which runs Linux) was a favorite of cheaters after jailbreaks came out.

If you're saying the Nintendo Switch system software is Linux-based, I don't think that's correct. It's a proprietary system based on a microkernel architecture.


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swiftcodertoday at 7:35 AM

It's proprietary, but they kit bashed a bunch of existing components (iirc, Android's surface flinger, the Nvidia embedded linux drivers, and the freebsd network stack)

farmerbbtoday at 12:54 AM

I think it's a FreeBSD variant, if I remember correctly.

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